[mythtv-users] BD+ cracked in Linux now

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 5:54 AM, Andrew Lyon wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Johnny Russ <jruss at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw this on slashdot today
>>> (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/01/1728222). I  
>>> thought some
>>> people on the list who would like to incorporate a Blu-ray player  
>>> into their
>>> setup would like to know that some of the people over at Doom9 have
>>> successfully cracked the BD+ DRM so that Blu-ray discs can now be  
>>> played in
>>> Linux. It is currently not a straightforward process but it seems  
>>> like
>>> things are already on the move to code up the necessary software  
>>> to make
>>> this more widely available.
>>
>> now if a hardware manufacturer would release h.264/vc-1  
>> acceleration support
>> it might be feasible.  I dont want to have to buy a top of the line  
>> Proc to
>> decode these video's with!
>
> http://www.reel-multimedia.com/en/ 
> extension_linux_technische_daten.html

I was looking for an old audio mixer recently and ran across my MPEG-2  
decoder card I used so my computer could play back DVD's smoothly.  
Funny how history repeats itself.